HOW MY BIRTH TRAUMA HEALED ME
Like greased lightning, two early posttraumatic insights came into me on the operating table that would sow the seeds for posttraumatic growth. Nearing the end of a long-drawn-out ordeal in …
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The Soul Work Of Sorting A Birth Story
by Pam England One of the most beloved myths in Greek antiquity is the story of Psyche and Eros; it is a love story and a woman’s heroic-initiatory journey during …
The Weight of Regret and Self Blame
by Pam England “It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is a weight you … carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. …
The Fatherless Daughter Archetype
by Pam England Watch: “Father and Daughter” (the 2000, Oscar-winning short film animation). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4KXZVApsQ On Father’s Day, I watched M. Dudock de Wit’s “Father and Daughter” several times. The narrative (without …
How Fathering a Newborn Changes a Man’s Brain
by Pam England Human fathers are among less than six percent of mammals who play a significant role in rearing offspring, along with pygmy marmosets, bat-eared foxes, silverback mountain gorillas, …
The Origin of Father’s Day
by Pam England For centuries Catholic countries have celebrated fathers on St. Joseph’s Day (on March 19): building an altar, wearing red, and preparing special foods. In over a hundred …
In Laborland, There is No Story or Storyteller
by Pam England When immersed by waves of uncertainty and the unexpected (both synonymous with childbirth, especially the first time), there is little mind or time to tell ourselves a …
Rituals of Matrescence among the Tundra Nenet People
Pam England, notes from “Catching a Child” by Zoia Vylka Ravna (2019) Rituals of Matrescence prepare and honor the “birth of the mother.” The term matrescence was coined in 1973 by medical anthropologist …
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A Mother’s Magical Power: Growing a Healthy Placenta & Baby
Pam England “Nourishing the Life Within” Oil painting by Pam England copyright 2016 Alora called me for a consultation because she was concerned that, due to nausea in the first …
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Invitation to share Posttraumatic Growth stories
Before a seismic traumatic event, we put confidence (if not conviction) behind the grand, complex framework of contradictory beliefs we built to sustain us and to keep uncertainty at bay. …
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